Raspberry Pi

[xav]

Did you get your B+ working, xav?

Yes - I should have been clearer, but this worked:

Possible solutions (I only tried the first):

* Update on an older model Pi then move the card across.

I would still like to experiment with some of the other suggestions I made (especially the serial to USB option), but it's a question of finding the time.

[random_dave]

Hardkernel, who some of you may know for their Samsung based SBC's have created a Raspberry pi compatible board which seems pointless when you first think about it, but my intrest was piqued slightly when i saw the size of it, which could definitely lend itself to some applications, for instance \i had been investigating hardware to make a handheld console to run my game & watch style game that i'm working on, and with the screen that they also sell this could be pretty easy to package into a 3d printed shell

http://makezine.com/2014/07/30/odroid-w ... ent-board/

[Firefox]

Hardkernel, who some of you may know for their Samsung based SBC's have created a Raspberry pi compatible board which seems pointless when you first think about it, but my intrest was piqued slightly when i saw the size of it, which could definitely lend itself to some applications, for instance \i had been investigating hardware to make a handheld console to run my game & watch style game that i'm working on, and with the screen that they also sell this could be pretty easy to package into a 3d printed shell

http://makezine.com/2014/07/30/odroid-w ... ent-board/

Built-in RTC, more IO pins broken out, and 35 euros from this shop in Germany. Nice!

Quite amusing that Broadcom don't know where they're sourcing the SoCs to make them from, too.

[gumboot]

It's happened before. I've been asked about Broadcom products with part numbers nobody recognised, and I couldn't find anybody who knew anything about it; but it turned out that it was VideoCore IP inside.

The feedback (from a customer we didn't know exxsted using a part we didn't know existed) led to bug fixes, which was helpful.


Why isn't this thread full of chatter about the impending closure of that division of Broadcom? Despite what I just said, it's still a little surprising to see new products based on a chip from a division with such an uncertain future.

With the churn I see on linkedin and requests for referrals, I assume it's not going to be kept afloat by the hobbyist market.

[Firefox]

Why isn't this thread full of chatter about the impending closure of that division of Broadcom? Despite what I just said, it's still a little surprising to see new products based on a chip from a division with such an uncertain future.

The what?

[gumboot]

http://www.cabume.co.uk/hardware/scores ... dwide.html

[everklear]

http://www.cabume.co.uk/hardware/scores ... dwide.html

This sort of thing always strikes me as strange.
Re-focus your business, certainly, to areas that are expected to be profitable.
Why not re-direct your existing workforce? The investment in people who are familiar with the company, the culture, etc., has to be worth a tremendous amount of cash. Making your employees a positive force for change from within has to be cheaper than scrapping entire divisions and laying people off en masse.

[gumboot]

Broadcom grows by acquisition and probably already carries too much dead weight. If they want to do something new they'll buy another company, and they have plenty of people to do what they already do.

Since it's built of acquisitions I don't think there's much of a culture to retain.

[Ratsoap]

If anyone wants to sell a Model B rev2 (the one with the network socket, and mounting holes in it), let me know, I'm sort of after one.

[Firefox]

You can still buy those - they're making the new B+ in parallel with the rev. 2 model B, and selling both.

Or do you mean one with the old 256MB of RAM, or something?

[Ratsoap]

Ah sweet, I just need it for my Cosmos Ex. I thought I had the correct rev, but I've got the one without the mounting holes, which apparently doesn't have the same pinout.

[random_dave]

Well if you were thinking of picking up an Odroid-W now is the time to do it, because Broadcom have said that they will not provide any more chips to hardkernel, and hardkernel have said once the initial batch made with the evaluation order quantity of the SOC have run out the project is no more

http://liliputing.com/2014/08/hardkerne ... aunch.html

[random_dave]

I forgot to mention, in case anyone didn't see the news, the foundation released a special version of the Epiphany browser with video acceleration and much faster scrolling, rendering and javascript, so browsing the web shouldn't be as much of a pain as it used to be
http://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/#web-browser-released

This kinda makes me tempted to replace my crashtastic ipad with a homemade pi tablet

[Firefox]

Despite my negative experiences with the original Raspberry Pi, I've gritted my teeth and bought a Pi 2 (the new one with quad ARM Cortex A7 cores and 1GB of SDRAM).

I first tried it running Raspian. It feels pretty snappy, and all of the USB stuff worked first time this time (in complete contrast to the heap of USB widgets I'd amassed for the original Pi before I gave up on the fucker). There's not that much pre-installed application-wise, mainly a load of educational stuff and Minecraft (Pi edition), so I quickly got bored after I'd had a play with it to see how well it worked.

Next I tried OpenELEC, which is a very minimal Linux distro tailored to running the Kodi (formerly XBMC) media player. That also worked with no problems, and played the random selection of media files on a USB stick flawlessly.

A very pleasant surprise was that my (not-really-smart) Samsung telly automatically identified the Pi as an "AnyNet+ device", and apparently sends remote control events back down the HDMI cable to the Pi. The upshot of this is that I can drive Kodi using my normal telly remote when I've got the Pi's HDMI input selected, which is very nice indeed. (And I didn't even have to enable or configure anything.)

Haven't tested networking yet, so that might be a steaming pile of shite (though probably not).

[Darkflame]

You going to try Windows10 (IoT) on it at some point?

I'm curious as to how committed Microsoft are with this "on anything" philosophy they got going.